Banshee needs a monochrome icon

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.
Unfortunately, New panel greyscale icons cannot be added, as adding the greyscale icons will cause the monochrome icons to be displayed in the apps.
Some apps use the same icon for the panel notification area and the system menu.
So changing the icon to a greyscale icon will lead to the greyscale icon being displayed in the system menu.

Ideally, we would like the app to be patched to use a different icon name for the notification area.
Until then fixing it in Humanity is not possible.

-- I'm not sure how banshee does it. Does it already use a separate icon-name for the panel icon?

If not , Kindly, assign the affected app using the "also affects project". So that the issue is resolved in the app side first.
When this issue is resolved kindly mention the new icon name to be used. Thanks

Thank you for your reply.
I'm not sure how to check if it uses a separate icon of not. I'm not a programer, though I'd be delighted to help in anyway I can to resolve this bug. Is there anything I can do to help resolving this bug?

Adam, I dont use banshee. I'm not sure either.

We'll let the banshee devs , reply about the status.

The icon Banshee uses for the notification area, .desktop file, and window icon is media-player-banshee, I think. What do you need in order for the monochrome icon to be implemented?

Ideally the notification area icon needs to be named separately.
For the Lucid cycle all the panel icons are named with -panel endings.
But for Lucid+1 , when the symbolic icon librvg work is done , the icons will be named as -symbolic.

So either, media-player-banshee-panel or media-player-banshee-symbolic as the icon name for the notification area would be good.

I've asked upstream what they think of a monochrome icon, I wanted to make sure we didn't lose the banshee identity in the process with a generic icon.

As it turns out Banshee is using a monochrome SVG as a placeholder in the grid view for when it can't find album art. I think this will end up looking great when scaled properly and put in the panel. I'm assigning this to Ken so he can hopefully find us an artist to finish this off for Ambiance/Radiance.

This bug was fixed in the package humanity-icon-theme - 0.5.1.5

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humanity-icon-theme (0.5.1.5) lucid; urgency=low

  * Updating theme to match new branding.
  * Show Desktop icon is brown when background picture is not; LP: #537347.
  * Icon for Browse in Rhythmbox do not make sense; LP: #533657.
  * Banshee needs a monochrome icon; LP: #525280.
 -- <email address hidden> (K.Vishnoo Charan Reddy) Tue, 11 Mar 2010 22:08:20 +0530

Today's Lucid shows me a color, white background icon in the panel.

The icon is in the set, banshee needs to update the name to point at banshee-panel, falling back to the normal banshee icon.

The fix has been committed upstream and will appear in 1.6.0, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=613836.

I'm running the latest version (Banshee 1.6 RC2) on Lucid and I'm still seeing this.

http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/9061/screenshotne.png

Something needs to be done so that icons in the system tray don't break the panel theme (or background images)!

--bornagainpenguin

This is fixed upstream and has not been uploaded to Ubuntu yet. When it is it will be mark "Fix Released", please be patient. Thanks!

Today I tried banshee's daily build to see if this was fixed. Indeed, banshee now uses the monochrome icon, but the grey background is still present (unlike in other notification area-applications). I'm attaching a screenshot.

@Bram Bonné : What your screenshot shows is Bug #403135 , which is still open for Banshee

The icon has been included in the latest updates.

@Vish I cannot see the new icon on fully updated lucid.

On Saturday 03,April,2010 01:08 AM, Tom Wright wrote:
> @Vish I cannot see the new icon on fully updated lucid.
>
You need Banshee 1.6.0.

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Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin (GPG: 0x8F02A411)
Ubuntu Developer

On 3 April 2010 06:37, Chow Loong Jin <email address hidden> wrote:
> On Saturday 03,April,2010 01:08 AM, Tom Wright wrote:
>> @Vish I cannot see the new icon on fully updated lucid.
>>
> You need Banshee 1.6.0.
>

well i have 1.6.0 from ppa Version: 1.6.0-1~hyper1~lucid1

It is monochrome but it doesn't look well the background is not
transperent so you have this white square with a gray bansee outline
in the middle.

Dmitrijs: see posts #15 and #16.

This bug was fixed in the package banshee - 1.6.0-1

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banshee (1.6.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    + Notable bug fixes:
      - Fix device support on upcoming distros with DeviceKit rename
      - Restore equalizer preset correctly (bgo#614313)
      - Handle broken symlinks correctly (bgo#614065)
      - Allow overriding Android, Maemo, WebOS default settings (bgo#611991)
      - Fix crash deleting playlist on mass storage device (bgo#613734)
      - Fix issue with iTunes importer dialog sizing (bgo#613607)
      - Fix play count calculation with gapless enabled (bgo#613418)
      - Handle exceptions thrown by old plugins (LP: #546342)
      - Use panel-specific (eg monochrome) icon in notification area
        (LP: #525280)
    + Other bugs fixed:
      - Start HAL automatically if not already started (LP: #543354)
      - Fix bug where new podcasts could not be added (Closes: #575734)
  * debian/(control, rules):
    + Disable the clutter video sink
      - Uses deprecated functions, and will fail to build with a newer version
        clutter (1.2.X which is available in experimental)
 -- Chow Loong Jin <email address hidden> Fri, 02 Apr 2010 03:12:16 +0800

Umm, with the Banshee (1.6.0-1) package; the banshee icon is uglier than ever. Now it has a grey box around it. Clearly the icon background is not transparent.

I would not consider this bug as "fixed"...

Umm, ok, feel free to delete that previous comment. I see there is another bug open for this...

Yes, I can confirm that the icon included with 1.6.0-1 is not rendering correctly. It looks absolutely horrible.

For people looking for a solution: you can always install the banshee indicator applet (as per instructions here http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/04/how-to-add-banshee-indicator-applet-in.html). This way, you do not only get a nice looking icon; you also now have banshee with the indicator applets. Maybe it should be the default to have the indicator applet extension installed and enabled, since we want as many as possible applications to migrate to the indicator applets?

I agree with Bram - the indicator applet extension should be default for Banshee in Lucid. The ordinary notification-area icon looks awful.

A temporarily work around would be to ship the banshee indicator applet as default for lucid.

installing the workaround removes a ton of required features: like being able to rate tracks, change shuffle and repeat settings, one click banshee maximise, scroll through tracks and being able to see the track details.

Yes the applet has a future, but only in 6 months in the next release. For the next 6 months I would prefer to not look at an ugly icon or have half of the features I use, every single time I run banshee, removed. I would not recommend having the applet as default if you need those features.

Where does the bug currently sit? Should I follow this thread or this one:https://bugs.launchpad.net/banshee/+bug/403135

thanks

We fixed this banshee (1.6.0-1) a long time ago. Seems to have been accidentally re-opened.

This is not fixed, the icon still looks horrible, my previous question on which thread to follow so that this issue is fixed was never answered.

"Where does the bug currently sit? Should I follow this thread or this one:https://bugs.launchpad.net/banshee/+bug/403135"

@psypher. This bug is about creating a monochrome icon - not about the monochrome icon looking like crap. That bug however is fixed in upstream banshee - you can get the latest version of banshee from the ppa: https://launchpad.net/~banshee-team/+archive/banshee-daily

ok cool thanks for clearing that up, will give it a try.

Jack, Is the bug I referenced the one related to the fix? As now that I have upgraded and the application indicator no longer does what it used to and the indicator applet is still seriously lacking in features. tried rolling back but it doesn't bring back the functionality. :(